Example sentences of "[v-ing] him [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , by keeping him on as State Secretary , Mr Yeltsin is ensuring that his trusted colleague from his days as Communist Party chief in Sverdlovsk ( now Yekaterinburg ) remains firmly in charge of all presidential structures . |
| 2 | well she got what she wanted then , whatever it is anyway , she 's keeping him virtually and they got this flat , whatever they 've got , and erm |
| 3 | So after that I would never let him out to play , but then a social worker came to complain that I was keeping him in and away from other children . " |
| 4 | and he , he just goes around thumping , kicking and , and going berserk during drama and the teacher just looks on and says calm down and I mean in view of the fact I 've written to the school and complained about , but you 'd think they would be keeping an eye and he hates drama so much and it , he 's got drama tomorrow , if he has any trouble tomorrow morning I 'm not sending him tomorrow afternoon I 'm gon na start keeping him home and if they ask why I 'm gon na say because you ca n't control your classes and you wo n't want to now |
| 5 | Erm yes , Mr Chairman I should like to apologise to Bob for interrupting him then because er the enthusiasm about the green code business of course has to do with the Hatfield community project and is not initiated by Welwyn Hatfield when in the use er Herts County Council Paul in the community project , but nevertheless the green cone idea is the individual person , it 's not the District Council and it 's not somebody else taking a taking green erm green type away for composting . |
| 6 | There was a man there now , a short tubby man , quite good-looking , Tabitha thought , checking him automatically as she entered . |
| 7 | A sudden surge of compassion washed through him , and when they reached the governor 's palace Joseph rashly thrust two piasters into the coolie 's cupped hands , thanking him over and over again in French . |
| 8 | Bernice threw herself recklessly forward , knocking him over and then back . |
| 9 | Ben Turner , 18 , admitted knocking him down but said he tried to stop the others from piling in . |
| 10 | Intrigued , and a little afraid of the gyrating shadows that loomed like feathery figures on the walls beside them , the boy kept close to the bent figure , curiosity alive in him , and a strange excitement driving him on as it always did when he was with the old man . |
| 11 | Jennie then asked Katharine to come across the half diagonal in a nice , steady canter , and to imagine ‘ picking him up and putting him down again on the other leg . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Ad enuff have you , boy ? ’ he said picking him up and with that he gave them all a brisk wave and disappeared down the steps , closing the hatch quickly behind him . |
| 13 | She grappled with him as he pressed against her , pushing him away and urging him on . |
| 14 | Broughton , the oldest boarder , was slapping Hilary on the back , then in desperation pushing him over and trying to massage his stomach . |
| 15 | Wexford took hold of his jacket roughly , pushing him so that his head jerked up . |
| 16 | Meehan lost no time in seeking him out and asking him if what he had heard was true . |
| 17 | He himself , by his own self justifying account , was giving the President the facts and pointing out the alternatives ; North , speaking the language of military tactics , was for ‘ boxing him in so there 's only one way he can go — the right way . ’ |
| 18 | She 's really eyeing him up and down . |
| 19 | Not that there was a spare ounce of flesh on him , Robbie decided , eyeing him surreptitiously as she edged carefully around him . |
| 20 | And when it was not shouting him down as he tried to suggest that the powers of the courts were adequate , the conference heard Mr R. A. Butler pledge himself to a new building programme of short-sharp-shock Detention Centres . |
| 21 | Tammuz was still looking him up and down like a roving automatic eye . |
| 22 | Jane said , looking him up and down . |
| 23 | ‘ All these years , ’ she said in a tired voice , looking him up and down . |
| 24 | " Irish , " she said at once , surprising him again as he left on his mission . |
| 25 | Hunting him down and destroying him forever can become a full-scale adventure in itself . |
| 26 | He did n't even notice the tannoy , he was already as tired as I was and he could barely stand ; I had to keep waking him up as he was swaying . |
| 27 | Dropping the cigarette he grabbed Tommy 's scarf , forcing him backwards until he was against one of the huge machines . |
| 28 | Swan was very careful to fly low all the time , keeping just in front of the Gruncher , leading him on and on , threading a path carefully through the great trees in the forest . |
| 29 | I was pumping him up and he responded . |
| 30 | A tilt to the left and it had taken his wing and was driving him back down to the ground ; correction to the right and it was at him that way , turning him round and out of control . |